Word: auction
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South House, now called Cabor House, on Saturday night hosted an auction that raised some $1900 for a memorial fund Honoring a former House member who died in a freak accident last...
Purchased at auction in London last summer, the page of 10 different drawings is the only one of its kind owned by a private collector, according to Konrad J. Oberhuber, Woodner Curass of Drawings in the Harvard University Art Museums...
After years of neglect and ignominy, including having their movements cannibalized for spare parts and their cases melted down, old wristwatches, particularly models made from the early 1920s through the '40s, have come into their own. Auction houses are getting "record prices" for vintage Rolexes and collectible Cartiers, according to Daryn Schnipper, a watch expert at Sotheby Parke Bernet. Sotheby's had four major auctions in New York in 1984 that prominently featured wristwatches; another, just last week, established several new highs including a record for a 1935 Cartier Tank...
After a public auction of the bar's equipment, the last night in the club's existence was a complete sellout. A standing-room-only crowd forced many loyal fans to wait outside until late in the night, while those regulars lucky enough to squeeze in drowned their sorrow in alcohol...
...takeovers is that business has turned sluggish as a result of the slowdown in U.S. population growth. Thus the easiest way for food companies to grow is to take over other firms. And as the Carnation purchase indicated, cows that are too contented may find themselves on the auction block...